The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1887-10-26
PITH AND POINT.
Let money 20 so long as manhood

Let money 60 so long as manhood
remains.
1t beats all, the lies some persons
can tell in order to gain little prop
erty.
Man never feels how precious time
is until he stops to think what he might
have done in idle hours. Baltimore
american.
1t was Emerson who defined the
real man AS ''he who in the midst OF
the crowd keeps the Independence OF
solitude"
There is a tide in the affairs OF mon
which, if not skillfully lodged at the
proper time, browns them. Cincinnati
Commercial Gazette.
Some of the milkmen hang pals OF
milk down the we'll to keep the milk
COOL Some of them use too much
rope. Mil,Oaukee Sentinel.
An Austin man has invented an
apparatus for arresting and extinguish-
ing sparks. Are the girls going to
stand thatp-I eras Sittings..
We notice that as rule people
who owe a grudge never ask for an ex-
tension of time nor reduction Of inter-
est. They whack up at every oppor-
unity.-Erchange.
Darwin said: every species of
fruit contains living principle. " A
man is very likely to discover it when
he bites into an apple in the dark
Binghamton Leader.
The arrest of several men in New
York on a charge of embracery has de-
moralized the girls all over the coun-
try. They think it will make the
young men too timid to do any hug
ging.
"A Photographer was put on the
markets the other day, but when he
headed fall in India rubber '.gum
drops" he was restored to his former
position. Boston Commercial Adver.
tiser.
True in Both Cases. -
| "'TtS more blessed 10 give
| Than 1t Is to receives"
OF advice and Of physic
This Is true, we believe.
| It'd Bits
The fact that mans BRAIN grows
lighter as he grows older is considered
a curious thing. His brain is supposed
by the community to be the lightest
when he is about twenty years old. -
Detroit Free Press.
Hope is, indeed, very fallacious.
and promises what it seldom gives;
but its promises are more valuable than
the gifts of fortune, and it seldom
illustrates us without assuring us of rec
ompensing the delay by q greater
bounty. DR.. johnson.
They are just running tho thing
into the ground" observed Amy. in a
discussion on some topic of mutual in
terest. YES" replied the high school
girl, Il think myself that they are
forcibly projecting it into terra firma- !"
Pittsburgh Chronicle.
Sometimes one has more flowers
piled on his coffin and grave than he
ever had given to him in all his life.
We want our flowers while we are liv-
ing The dead are past all that. i
. we would do good. let us do it while
we are alive to those who are living. =
Indianapolis Journal.
"A Growing Child. Conductor
madam, did understand you to say
this girl is not yet twelve years old?''
Mo.her-"She will be twelve mex
, spring" "And you want to 60 al
the way to New York in this carp
, Eyes" '.Then you should not 60 OF
this train" "Why not?" "Becaus'
this is slow train, and if that CIR
keeps on growing as she has been, b.
the time we get to New York she viii
, be SO large that she will not be abb
: TO get through the car door. The com
pany can't afford to take the car t.
pieces on half-fare ticket ~ 7era
Sifti.gs.